Composite image showing NGC 4522 within its home cluster
This image shows NGC 4522 within the context of the Virgo Cluster.
Credit:
NASA, ESA and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
About the Image
| Id: | heic0911e |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 30 September 2009, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0911 |
| Size: | 3094 x 2189 px |
About the Object
| Name: | NGC 4522 |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral • Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Barred |
| Distance: | 60 million light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical B |
435 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Optical B |
DSS | |
| Optical V |
606 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Infrared I |
DSS | |
| Infrared I |
814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
